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2. Demystifying Creative Pedagogy in Early Learning and Play: Critiquing Technical Rational Ideas of ‘Quality’

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on September 27, 2017

This post by John Davis continues our discussion concerning pedagogy in order to explain the political context of our work. It questions rigid notions of ‘quality’ that impose inflexible ‘norms’ on our […]

3. Demystifying Creative Pedagogy in Early Learning and Play: Enabling Holistic, Anti-discriminatory, Socially Just and Inclusive Pedagogy:

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on September 27, 2017

  The first post in this series of 3 posts argued that pedagogy is the space where we analyse, enquire, evaluate and reflect on the way we work with children.  It criticised approaches […]

Let The Flowers Bloom Part 1: Christina Milarvie Quarrell and John Davis

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on August 14, 2017

Following on from their May 20th post which explained the dangers of ‘Man Up’ patriarchy and analysed the context of male illnesses of despair, Christina and John examine the impact of patriarchy […]

Let The Flowers Bloom Part 2:

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on August 14, 2017

Let The Flowers Bloom Part 2: Christina Milarvie Quarrell and John Davis Part 1 of this post discussed the disabling, violent and controlling effect of patriarchy in male-female relationships. It posed questions […]

RECLAIMING OUR STORIES DEPOWERING SHAME

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on May 20, 2017

Christina Milarvie Quarrell is a Poet Photographer Artist born and raised in the Govanhill Gorbals communities. Her work celebrates the values of people before profit.  Art is her passion and she utilises […]

Gal Holiday and The Honky Tonk Revue, Sunday 11th June Teviot Row House Edinburgh, Doors Open 19.00.

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on May 17, 2017

End of Term Celebration  –   All Welcome Come and dance till you drop! For One Night Only We Present New Orleans’ Finest  Americanna/Ameripolitan Act: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Sunday […]

Creating Convincing Narratives: We Are Haunted By Waters and Words:

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on May 2, 2017

Thanks to Katie Gallogly-Swann for posting this Orwell article on facebook (see link here). Today’s post – compares Orwell to the American author Norman Maclean (who has often been discussed on this […]

The First Steps To A Universal Early learning and Care Service?

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on March 26, 2017

Professor John Davis, Professor of Childhood Inclusion at the University of Edinburgh compares the Scottish Government’s plans for a quality, flexible, accessible and affordable early learning and childcare service to the Common […]

It Is A Matter Of When The Union Ends – Not If It Ends: Demographics, Not Racism, Will bring About An Independent Scotland And A United Ireland

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on March 10, 2017

In June 2015 I wrote in this blog post about the ironic way that unionists pointed the finger of extremism at Scotland with out ever reflecting on their own prejudice. https://peoplesrepublicofescotia.com/2015/06/02/extremism-prejudices-and-all-of-us-together/ My […]

There Are People in the World with Grace, Poise and Dignity: Learning From American Poetry, Words, and Song

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on February 5, 2017

Usually, it’s ‘easy’ to write the first sentence of an article. It’s ‘easy’ because it tells the truth of what’s to follow.  It should be ‘easy’ – even when that ‘easy’ truth […]

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